Tradition Quotes · Page 84

In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if…

— Shlomo Carlebach

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

— Mahatma Gandhi

African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in…

— Audre Lorde

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly…

— Anne Lamott

I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

— Waris Ahluwalia

The words and lives of Christian men must be in continual process of reformation by the written Word of their God. This…

— J. I. Packer

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We…

— Dorothy Day

I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions…

— Talal Asad

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud,…

— Louis L'Amour

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

— Joanna Russ

In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and…

— Kathryn Lasky

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood,…

— Kevin Young

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

— Anne Carson

Every year NYC hosts one of the world's most famous Easter Parade. Each year attendees and participants show up in their Sunday…

— Hilary Farr

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success…

— Ronald Steel

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that…

— Becky G

I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing.…

— Mike Yaconelli

Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries…

— Sam Hamill

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

— Stefan Molyneux

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start…

— Nicolas Roeg

Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence,…

— Paul Feyerabend

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the greed-is-good tradition of the 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' movie franchises, the overseers of 'The Hunger Games' have split the last…

— Richard Corliss

“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language,…

— Edith Wharton

I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble…

— Nina Garcia

Tradition is a challenge to innovation..

— Alvaro Siza Vieira

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

— John Searle

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, We live our lives based on dead men's tale. It is okay to…

— Abhijit Naskar

It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just…

— Quavo

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right .”

— Brandon Sanderson

When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial…

— Tony Evans

The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,…

— Jeanette Winterson

When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there…

— Marilynne Robinson

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…

— Israel Shenker

Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International…

— Shari Arison

Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its…

— Patrick McEnroe